According to the BBC, the average person will have only read 6 of the 100 books listed here. Which of course made me want to figure out how many I have read. I've entered those in purple- my total is 54. How many have YOU read?
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare (really? all of them?!)
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog inthe Night-time -Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Inferno - Dante
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Bank
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
9 comments:
You Rock!! I only got 16 out of it! I didn't count the ones I've SEEN instead of READ (pretty close though, right :) I'm going to have to have Joel look through them. He'll do better because he's read all the Lord of the Rings and lots of Shakespeare. BUT, that being said, there are lots of great books that I've read that are NOT in there.
25 - I'm a bit disappointed in myself. Not close to all the works of Shakespeare.
Laura, what great books have you read that you think should be on there? The Laura List, if you will! I'm always looking for suggestions...
I also really like My Sister's Keeper, A Thousand Splendid Suns, The Glass Castle, Secret Life of Bees, The Memory Keeper's Daughter was good, of course I did LOVE the Twilight series but that might just not make the list :), Eat, Pray, Love was interesting enough and I think a big enough book to make the list, Me Talk Pretty One Day was quirky and interesting and funny, Funny in Farsi was a great read. How's that?? Are you on Goodreads, Jen?
I have read about 20 of them I think. If only there was more time to read...
Great additions, Laura. I've read most of the ones you mentioned. Yes, I'm on Goodreads. We should be friends!
Sherry, I'm sure having children puts a serious cramp on free reading time! Once they're both in school full-time you can catch up. :-)
Joel, I know! What's up with lumping the entire works of Shakespeare together?
I won't tell you how many I've read. We might not be able to stay friends. I'm certainly better than the predicted 6, but I've got some work to do. Maybe I shouldn't let myself get addicted to new facebook games. My new goal: Facebook less, reading more. Thanks Jen :)
my total? 44. hmmm. best get reading. i must ask, though, have you really read the ENTIRE Bible? really? props to you if that's the case.
ps- you may see a similar post pop on my blog soon. imitation IS the highest form of flattery after all.
43 for me. What did the BBC say was the criteria for the list? It doesn't look like it could have been "classics" as the criteria since there are several on here that wouldn't be considered classics and a lot of classics of the past 150 years aren't on the list. Nothing by Faulkner?? Maybe that's because it was the BBC's list???
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